“Memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive are tied up in memory.” Nick Cave

Thursday, June 16, 2016

June 16th 1986 The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead

Some anniversaries really hit you and this one is hitting me more than most since I realised it hit today about half an hour back. The Queen Is Dead is exactly thirty years old today and I go spinning back to the summer term of my first year at university, my first and only time in court, my first really important relationship, all those incredibly important friendships and experiences you make and have at that point of your life. Oh and The Queen Is Dead an album and band that have utterly mushroomed in significance in the intervening years, (and they both felt extremely important to those in the know at the time). I'll listen through to the whole damned thing now. It's a phenomenal record of light and shade. You get a song that has a fair mixture of both.

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I'm a bloke just turned fifty living in Newcastle, a wonderful city in the North East of England. This is a fairly random music related blog for things that I'm thinking about, listening to, Pop Culture and the like. Originally focussed on vinyl mainly but gradually mutating into a discussion of everything musical. The plan now is to post something every day for as long as I can. I do it for myself mainly but hopefully will post things that others are interested in. I welcome any comments for stuff I put up.

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